• World Hunger Compared To American Diet

  Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Ezekiel 16:49-50

  Tags:  Food

WORLD HUNGER COMPARED TO AMERICAN DIET

Most of us have no idea what it is like to be really hungry. We might use the expression "I’m starving!" But the truth is far from that.

• People who starve to death each year in the world: 11 million

• Overweight U.S. adults: 34 million

• Average calories consumed daily,

• North Americans: 3500; Africans: 2100

• People who are continually hungry; Ethiopia: 20%, Sudan: 20%, Mozambique: 30-40%,

• American adults currently on diets: 19%

(From a sermon by Gordon Curley, Joseph the Authentic Leader, 11/18/2010)